RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 19, 2023

As cash runs out, Pakistan introduces bill to unlock IMF funds

A human player has comprehensively defeated a top-ranked AI system at the board game Go, in a surprise reversal of the 2016 computer victory that was seen as a milestone in the rise of artificial intelligence.

Internal review found ‘falsified data’ in Stanford President’s Alzheimer’s research, colleagues allege

GoDaddy says a multi-year breach hijacked customer websites and accounts

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 18, 2023

UK To Give Kyiv “Longer-Range Weapons”

The FBI’s Balkan scandal keeps spreading

Israeli strike hits heart of Syria’s security elite

Iranian drone hit Israeli-owned tanker in Arabian Sea

Is Your Baby ‘Nonbinary’? Social Workers in Pennsylvania Are Now Required To Say

A very dark experiment is under way in Nigeria, with deadly consequences. Since October 2021, 99.5% of Nigerians have refused to use the central bank’s digital currency, the so-called e-Naira, preferring to continue using cash. So what did the central bank do? It doubled down. Related: Social Credit Brazilian Style: All UBI Recipients Must Be Vaxxed

Just to be clear, it is the publisher that is doing this. You can no longer buy the man’s books brand new. A group of self-important woke lefties is “fixing” the works of Roald Dahl for a “modern audience.”

Microsoft “lobotomized” AI-powered Bing Chat, and its fans aren’t happy

Astrophysicists Discover a Mysterious Perfect Explosion in Space – “It Makes No Sense”

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Large groups of mostly older people gathered in the cities of Wuhan and Dalian, in the latest sign of the economic fallout of China’s “zero-Covid” policies.

The bad news for California starts out with “California tax revenues, a bellwether for the country, declined 42% year-over-year in January, led by a 50% decline in income tax revenues.”

Ukrainians Defend Trench From Russian Assault

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Ukraine Bought ‘All The Gas Trucks Available In Europe’ To Keep Fueled

Important Takeaways from Ohio Gov’s Train Derailment Briefing

10 years ago today, the Chelyabinsk meteor explosion showed why we need better methods of detecting and tracking near-Earth asteroids.

Judge Throws Out NY Online “Hate Speech” Law That Would Have Led To Closure Of Most Comment Sections

Several U.S. gas drillers are having to sell their gas below break-even price.

RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Still better then highways and nobody seems to like the safest option (pipelines although admittedly they would not have been an option for these chemicals). Toxic train derailment in East Palestine, OH highlights issues facing America’s railways

‘Finding corpses is all we have’

A new case study on the failures of New York’s Second Avenue Subway extension from the Transit Costs Project well illustrates how government bloat writ large is a unifying lens through which America’s construction inefficiencies can be productively analyzed.

Canadian officials have asked New York City Mayor Eric Adams to “immediately” stop sending illegal aliens across the northern US border into Canada, just one week after reports that the National Guard has been helping distribute taxpayer-funded one-way tickets from Manhattan.

Biden Outpacing Trump in Judicial Confirmations

Rescue teams began winding down the search for survivors on Monday as the focus switched to tackling a dire humanitarian disaster caused by the earthquake that has left more than 35,000 dead in Turkey and Syria.

Former Prime Minister Asif Ali Zardari, notorious for his outlandish personal corruption, once reportedly told U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke that Pakistan was “too big to fail” — likening the country to U.S. banks that received massive bailouts to prevent collapse in 2008. Although Pakistan is a nuclear power, as well as the fifth most populated country in the world, whether its leaders can pull themselves together and find a way out of the onslaught of crises — perhaps the worst in the country’s history — remains to be seen. Related: The underrated story of 2023

I’m talking about a state-led effort to raise taxes on multimillionaires and billionaires living in California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New York and Washington.

Cheating Teachers

Tech job bonfire rages on as Microsoft, GitLab and others join in

Biden Suddenly Orders Release Of Another 26 Million Barrels From Strategic Oil Reserve

Number of Newborns with Syphilis Infections Skyrockets in Mississippi